Select South Florida Sprint customers get to be among the first to get their hands on the new Palm Pre smartphone -- a phone that has garnered high praise by critics and has a lot riding on its success.
Sprint sent invitations to ''premier customers'' within a 50-mile radius of its Pembroke Pines store for a launch party Friday night. They'll be able to enjoy wine.
Ed Colligan is a nice guy and visionary marketer who, nevertheless, deserves blame for most of Palm's problems, including the failed launch of the Palm Pre last weekend.
Most of the gadget press is obsessing over whether the Palm Pre is an iPhone killer, but they're asking the wrong question. We've been testing one for the past few days.
The iPhone 3G S uses a Samsung processor incorporating an ARM Cortex-A8 processor core and Imagination's PowerVR SGX graphics core to achieve a significant new class of speed while remaining backwardly compatible with existing iPhone apps.
Just because a phone incorporates a terrific operating system that makes it simple to use doesn't make it a "toy" — as some die-hard techies contend — and doesn't mean it's not a serious.
Shares of Palm, Inc spiked upward roughly ten percent on rumors that the new Palm Pre phone might only remain exclusively tied to Sprint for six months, suggesting availability through Verizon Wireless and AT&T as early as January 2010.
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